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Press Quotes: feedforward
“By now the line on Mr. Neumann is well established: He is the smart joker of dance. What’s not said as often is how deeply felt and deeply moving his work can be.” -NY TIMES
“feedforward is no sneering gloss on dumb jocks; it’s an elegant, spatially adept meditation from someone who knows well the power and the absurdities of sport, as well as the primal nature of its connection to an unmistakably American sense of the world. And yes, relax, it’s wildly funny…” - NY TIMES
“While many choreographers have approached the athleticism these disparate physical activities share, David Neumann and his advanced beginner group have created an ingenious fragmented amalgam, a mash up of dance and stadium games…” - The Villager
“Who knows why some movements are heartbreaking, others hilarious? Who knows how Mr. Neumann manages to pinpoint each? And how on earth did he realize that having four onstage trombonists augment a score by Eve Beglarian was the only possible way to go? Mysteries, all — miraculous ones.” - NY TIMES
“And that’s just for starters in David Neumann’s feedforward, which blends the tropes of tennis, basketball, baseball and ballet to come up with the wildest performance to grace a New York stage this year. It’s funny and sad, gross and lyrical…Neumann’s been warming up for this one his entire working life…and he’s got a winner.” - NY METRO
“If there is an argument in the dance world that pits those who believe dance need only to be aesthetically beautiful in a simple, if contemporary manner against those who desire a more intelligent investigation of movement as art, David Neumann’s feedforward, a deeply felt meditation on athletics and the human condition now in its second of a two week run at Dance Theater Workshop, will provide the latter group with solid evidence that theirs is not only the high road, but it is a road no less beautiful, and rife with meaning.” - Counter Critic
Press Articles
feedforward : Milwaukee Sentinel Journal
tough, the tough : Flash Review
tough, the tough : Milwaukee Sentinel journal
Pearl River : ballettanz (MJ Thompson)